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TV series

Drunk History

2013TV-146 seasons6.8 / 10

Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America's great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable results.

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Checked Jul 24, 2026

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Synopsis

Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America's great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable results.

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Episode 1

Heroines

22m8.5 / 10

Deborah Sampson goes undercover as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War, Rose Valland rescues art from the Nazis, and Clara Barton becomes "the angel of the battlefield."

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Guest stars Evan Rachel Wood

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Episode 2

Dangerous Minds

22m7.8 / 10

Occultist and rocket scientist Jack Parsons works on his "sex magick," W.C. Minor helps write the Oxford English Dictionary, and Rasputin lives the high life in Russia.

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Episode 3

Game Changers

22m7.8 / 10

Hip hop is born in 1970s New York City, Berry Gordy founds the massively influential Motown Records, and Nichelle Nichols brings the civil rights movement to space.

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Episode 4

Sex

22m5.3 / 10

Margaret Sanger is a pioneering advocate for birth control, the Kinseys create a scale for sexuality, and journalist Gloria Steinem goes undercover in a Playboy Club.

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Episode 5

Civil Rights

22m7.8 / 10

British suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu, Gwendolyn Sanders ignites the Birmingham Crusade, and Judy Heumann leads a sit-in for people with disabilities.

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Episode 6

Underdogs

22m7.8 / 10

Fred Rogers fights for public television in front of Congress, journalist Ida Tarbell takes on John D. Rockefeller, and Maya Lin designs the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Episode credits

Guest stars Kimiko Glenn, Colin Hanks, Jon Gabrus, Jennie Pierson, Solomon Georgio, Shannon Woodward, David Koechner, John Ennis

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Episode 7

Drunk Mystery

22m7.7 / 10

Mystery writer Agatha Christie vanishes, a man known as D.B. Cooper successfully hijacks a plane, and a series of anonymous letters haunts the town of Circleville, OH.

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Guest stars Georgia Hardstark, Kyle Mooney, Alison Rich, Kirsten Dunst, Taran Killam, Jesse Plemons, Jayma Mays, Richard Riehle

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Episode 8

World War II

22m8.0 / 10

A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops, a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment camps, and Adolf Hitler's nephew fights for the U.S.

Episode credits

Guest stars Randall Park, Lyric Lewis, Jack McBrayer, Aaron Takahashi, Grant Imahara, Johnny Knoxville

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Episode 9

Heists

22m7.8 / 10

An Italian handyman steals the “Mona Lisa,” the “Santa bandits” rob a bank in Texas, and Mossad agents capture a Nazi general who had escaped to Argentina.

Episode credits

Guest stars Jack Black, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Rachel Bloom, Tony Hale

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Episode 10

Animals

22m8.5 / 10

A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court, Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA, and a horse that can solve math problems leads to advances in the field of psychology.

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Guest stars Claudia O'Doherty

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Episode 11

The Middle Ages

22m7.5 / 10

Joan of Arc leads the French during the Hundred Years' War, Mongol leader Genghis Khan rises to power, AND Mansa Musa brings thousands of people on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Episode credits

Guest stars Daryl J. Johnson

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Episode 12

Death

22m7.8 / 10

Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers, a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln's body, and an embalmed bandit makes his way around the country.

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Episode 13

Halloween

22m8.5 / 10finale

A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town, one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween, and Vlad the Impaler inspires the classic horror story Dracula.

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Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026

More about Drunk History

Cast

Derek WatersSelf - Host / Various Characters
Colin HanksErnest Thompson Seton
Stephen MerchantF**kin' President Lincoln
Jack BlackWilliam Mulholland
Jenny SlateHerself - Narrator
Jason RitterArt Heist Investigator
Michael CeraJohn Endicott
Natasha LeggeroHerself - Narrator

Credits

Created by
Derek Waters

Production details

Status
Canceled
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
70
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • Comedy CentralUnited States
  • Gary Sanchez ProductionsUnited States

Themes

celebrity guestcelebrity reenactmentdramatizationdrinkingdrunkhilariousreenactmentstorytelling